{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"1688 News & Clips + Simon Ostrovsky, Christian Finnegan","description":"  Christian Finnegan is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in New York City. to buy Christian a coffee, send it to Christian-finnegan-1 (if it asks for the last four digits of his phone number it\u2019s 1814) BUY HIS NEW ALBUM--- \u201cShow Your Work: Live at QED\u201d Finnegan is perhaps best known as one of the original panelists on VH1\u2018s Best Week Ever and as Chad, the only white roommate in the \u201cMad Real World\u201d sketch on Comedy Central\u2018s Chappelle\u2019s Show. Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included \u201cConan\u201d, \u201cThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson\u201d, \u201cWould You Rather...with Graham Norton\u201d, \u201cGood Afternoon America\u201d and multiple times on The Today Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and on History\u2018s I Love the 1880s. He hosted TV Land\u2019s game show \u201cGame Time\u201d. As an actor, Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of \u201cCarl\u201d in the film Eden Court, a ticket agent in \u201cKnight and Day\u201c and several guest roles including a talk show host on \u201cThe Good Wife\u201c. In October 2006, Finnegan\u2019s debut stand up comedy CD titled Two For Flinching was released by Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007. \u201cAu Contraire!\u201d was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third special \u201cThe Fun Part\u201d was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014. From Simon's Website: I\u2019m Simon Ostrovsky, an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker and I've spent much of my career reporting from conflict zones and authoritarian countries. I\u2019m currently a Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour covering Ukraine and Russia. Previously, I was a correspondent for VICE News, where I created and reported Russian Roulette, the documentary series that followed Russia\u2019s intervention in Ukraine from its beginning. My reporting has taken me to front lines, occupied territories and places where getting to the story is often the hardest part of telling it. I\u2019ve always believed there\u2019s no substitute for being there: talking to the people involved, seeing what\u2019s happening for yourself, checking what you\u2019re told and coming back with something the audience didn\u2019t already know. If you\u2019re looking for good coverage of Ukraine, Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, follow me on YouTube and Substack\u2014I\u2019ve been covering the region for more than two decades and have built a reputation for reporting from the ground rather than from a distance. Why YouTube and Substack? There\u2019s more news being posted on the internet than ever before. But a lot of it isn\u2019t actually reporting. It\u2019s people sitting in front of cameras talking about reporting that somebody else paid to produce. There\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with commentary, but somebody still has to do the expensive part: get on a plane, go to the place, find the people who actually know what happened, hire good local producers, ask difficult questions, check the answers and come back with something we didn\u2019t already know. Increasingly, the news business is having trouble paying for that kind of work. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve launched my own YouTube channel and Substack. I want to see if I can use the same internet economy that has disrupted traditional news to help finance actual reporting. The idea is pretty straightforward: if you can support my work through a subscription on Substack, I\u2019ll put that money back into the journalism\u2014travel, local producers, camera crews, investigations and documentaries. I don\u2019t want to sit at home and tell you what I think about whatever everyone is arguing about that day. I want to go places, talk to people, find things out and show you what I found. The internet itself isn\u2019t the problem. In fact, it\u2019s a big part of how my reporting first reached a large audience. The problem is that we\u2019ve built an online news economy where it can be easier to make money talking about other people\u2019s reporting than paying for the reporting itself. I\u2019d like to see if we can flip that around. YouTube is where I\u2019ll publish my video reporting\u2014dispatches, investigations, documentaries and stories from the field. Substack is where I\u2019ll write directly to readers, share what I\u2019m working on and take you behind the scenes of how the reporting gets done. Some stories will be quick. Others may take months. But the basic idea is the same: don\u2019t just post about the story. Go there. 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